Laboratory equipment

​I14 possesses an electrochemistry laboratory where battery cells can be assembled/dissasembled and cycled.
We are working with both coin cells and pouch cells.

All the necessary materials can be vacuum dried beforehand using the Buchi drying oven.

There is a BioLogic SP-200 single channel potentiostat with ultra-low current probe (100 fA resolution).
This potentiostat is well suited to perform in situ / in operando experiments for a wide range of experiments
(i.e., corrosion). Currently, it can be controlled from an external laptop located at the I14 control room,
and the plan is integrating some of the parameters for its operation within the beamline control software.

We have an Ivium OctoStat available, with the following characteristics:

• 8-channel Potentiostat/Galvanostat/ZRA
• Each channel: ±200mA/±10V FRA/EIS: 10µHz-100kHz (1MHz optional)
• 19" rack-mountable housing

The instrument is designed for applications where multiple cells are operated in parallel for long periods of time, such as battery/fuel cell-testing, electrode development, biotechnology and corrosion.

Pellet press is available for the I14 users to prepare pellet samples for XANES measurements. For instructions on how to use pellet press please see here. For instructions on how to prepare a suitable pellet for the measurements of standards please see here.

Pellets of air sensitive samples can be prepared inside the I14 glovebox using a mini-pellet press.

Powder samples/crystals can be mounted on MiTeGen kapton loops using micromanipulator. It allows for precise mounting of single particles under microscope.

Pillar samples of desired dimensions can be cut using Oxford Lasers micro machining system. It can also be used for coarse milling of tomography samples.

Any fine sample milling can be achieve using FIB-SEM equipment.

An AxioImagerM2.m light microscope is available for microscopy, with objectives between 5x and 50x as well as DIC adaptors, and Zeiss 3.7 software for time series and z stacks. A simple stereoscope is also available. Please speak to your local contact if you would like to use this equipment during your beamtime.

Access to any of the equipment listed above should be discussed with the beamline staff and specified in the beamtime proposal.